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True Weird Stuff

True Weird Stuff is the award-winning podcast hosted by Sheri Lynch. Surprising, odd, bizarre - and sometimes insane. Always true. Let us tell you a story…

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77:42

Killer Eyes

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/05/30

Today's True Weird Stuff - Killer EyesFritz Angerstein was a German mass murderer who killed his wife and 7 other people on November 30 and December 1, 1924. For centuries, people wondered if it might be possible for the humaneye to record the last image it saw before death, leading to the practice of forensic optography. Even though it would eventually be debunked, forensic optography was admitted as damning evidence in the trial of Fritz Angerstein. It claimed that his face

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97:57

Murder Farm

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/05/24

Today's True Weird: Murder Farm (Airdate 5/23/2025)

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83:57

Mammoth Feast

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2025/05/16

Today's True Weird Stuff - Mammoth Feast (Airdate 5/16/2025)In 1901, an expedition teamin Siberia discovered a nearly perfectly preservedmammoth locked in permafrost for 44,000 years. Various tales of the consumption of mammoth meat have been around for centuries, but none like theExplorers Club's 47th Annual Dinner in 1951.The exclusive meal was rumoured to have included a host of exotic delicacies, including pieces of 250,000-year-old woolly mammoth meat. It wouldn't be

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86:51

Adam & Eve Declassified

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2025/05/09

Today's True Weird Stuff - Adam & Eve DeclassifiedIn the 1960s, the CIA classified a book called The Adam and Eve Story. The book claims thatEarth undergoes catastrophic events approximately every 6,500 years, leading to the destruction and rebirth of civilization through disasters like pole shifts and mass extinctions. The book became declassified in 2013, but even then, only several dozen pages were made available...and the reason the CIA has kept the details of this

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92:36

Casket Girls

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2025/05/03

Today's True Weird Stuff - Casket GirlsIn the 1700s, the French colony in Louisiana had a population problem: there weren't enough women. And so the French government rounded up and shipped over hundreds of women across the Atlantic to marry male settlers and help “civilize” the growing colony. The women carried what little belongings they had in smallwooden trunks that looked like mini coffins, which is why the women were known as the Casket Girls.

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94:03

Doomsday Clock: 89 Seconds To Midnight

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2025/04/26

Today's True Werid Stuff - Doomsday Clock: 89 Seconds To MidnightCreated in 1947, the Doomsday Clock was established by a group of atomic scientists to represent to the public the likelihoodof a human-made global armageddon,whether it's the looming threat of nuclear war, bioterrorism, or cyberwarfare. Over the years, the Doomsday Clock has found itself inching closer to midnight, and January 2025, the clock was set to 89 seconds before midnight...the closest it's ever been to

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98:45

The Arkansas Ghost

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2025/04/18

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Arkansas GhostJanuary, 1929. A man named Connie Franklin moved to Stone County, Arkansas. The alleged 20-something began courting a 16-year-old girl named Tiller Ruminer, and on March 9th, 1929, the two were on their way to obtain their marriage license when a group of men attacked them. Tiller survived the brutal assault, but Franklin was tortured to death, and his body was burned in the woods. Months later, a pile of ashes and charred bones

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87:33

Reliving The Black Eyed Kids

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2025/04/11

Today's True Werid Stuff - Reliving The Black Eyed KidsIn 1996, reporter Brian Bethel said he had an encounter with two children that left him terrified. Sitting in his car in a parking lot late at night, Bethel was approached by two young boys whose eyes were as black as coal. In the decades since Bethel shared his story, others have claimed to have similar encounters with children with pitch-black eyes asking for help, or asking to enter the person's home. Are these

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106:38

Another Icepick To The Brain

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2025/04/04

Today's True Weird Stuff - Another Icepick To The BrainRosemary Kennedy was part of the powerful and highly esteemed Kennedy Family. Rosemary was born with intellectual disabilities at a time when children with special needs were highly stigmatized. When she was 23 years old, Rosemary's father ordered her to have a lobotomy. The procedure left her permanently incapacitated, and her family would keep her mostly hidden from the public for the rest of her life. (NOTE: This was

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108:38

Headless Valley

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/03/28

Today's True Weird Stuff - Headless ValleyThe Nahanni Valley in the Northwestern Territories of Canada is a beautiful area that's home to strange and deadly tales, including the story ofFrank and William McLeod. The two brothers set off into the Nahanni Valley in hopes of discovering a fortune in gold. Years later, their skeletons were found at an abandoned camp...and their heads were missing. Hence the reason the area became known as the Headless Valley.

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101:07

The Last Duel

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2025/03/21

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Last DuelThe most famous duel in American history was between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr in 1804. The premiere way of settling disputes and upholding unwritten codes of honor, the act of dueling would gradually fall out of favor over the 19th Century. However, dueling was still commonplace in Southern states like South Carolina. That is, until a duel in 1880 betweenColonel E.B. Cash and Colonel William Shannon forced the state to ban the

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77:48

Jill the Ripper

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2025/03/15

Today's True Weird Stuff - Jill the RipperIn 1888, the people of the Whitechapel district of London were terrorized by someone on a ruthless killing spree. Over 100 suspects were named, including a woman named Mary Pearcey. In 1890, Mary was convicted of brutally murdering her lover's partner and child, and Mary was sentenced to death. The brutal nature of the killings would lead to a theory decades later that claimed Mary Pearcey was the was the infamous Jack the Ripper.

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70:26

Mirror, Mirror

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2025/03/08

Today's True Weird Stuff - Mirror, MirrorMargaretha von Waldeck was the real-life inspiration for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Born to a noble family during the Holy Roman Empire, Margaretha's mother passed away when she was 4 years old. Her father, Count Philip IV, would go on to remarry a woman namedKatherina von Hatzfeld. Katherina despised her stepdaughter, and had Margaretha sent away. Though beautiful and poised to make a name for herself in the history books,

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93:22

Brain In A Jar

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/03/01

Brain In A JarPhineas Gage was an American railroad foreman who survived a traumatic brain injury. In 1848, an iron rod shot through his skull and destroyed a chunk of his left frontal lobe. Though he survived the accident, the damage to his brain drastically altered his personality. Gage's story became a catalyst for modern neuroscience, which has advanced to the point scientists are now able to develop a brain in a jar.

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78:41

The King's Rhinoceros

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/02/22

Today's True Weird Stuff - The King's RhinocerosIn the 1500s, King Manuel of Portugal gifted Pope Leo a beautiful, white elephant as a gesture of obedience to the Vatican. Unfortunately, the majestic beast passed away after only two years. To make up for it, King Manuel tried to ship Pope Leo a rhinoceros named Ganda; however, the rhino met its demise ina shipwreck before it could make it to Rome. The only good thing to come from this debacle was the immortalization of Ganda

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78:22

The Appetite

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/02/15

Today's True Weird Stuff - The AppetiteTarrare was a French Showman in the 1700s who had an insatiable appetite. His eternal hunger terrorized him to the point he literally tried to consume everything: live animals, garbage, inanimate objects, and even human flesh. The curious case of the 100lb Tarrare baffled even the greatest medical minds, and the medical findings of his autopsy were the definition of truly weird stuff.

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86:13

The Bunker

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/02/08

Today's True Weird Stuff - The BunkerIn the 1950's and '60s, fallout shelters were all the rage. Tensions due to America's Cold War with Russia led to a looming fear of nuclear disaster. These underground bunkers, equipped with a living space and food rations, were a civil defense strategy aimed at reducing casualties in a nuclear war. And no fallout shelter was more elaborate than the Greenbrier Hotel; a luxurious resort paid for by the government as a cover for the secret

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71:55

A Real Stiff

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/02/01

Today's True Weird Stuff - A Real StiffElmer McCurdy was an American outlaw who couldn't pull off a smooth heist to save his life. He tried to use his Army training with nitroglycerin to rob banks and trains, often to no avail. After accidentally robbing the wrong train in1911, a drunken McCurdy met his demise after firing at the deputy sheriffs searching for him. And for the next 65 years, McCurdy's mummified corpse wound up being used as a traveling sideshow attraction known

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102:25

Human Cloning

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/01/25

Today's True Weird Stuff - Human CloningIn the previous episode of True Weird Stuff, we told the story of Raëlism, the religious UFO cult led byClaude Vorilhon. We're now diving into one of their core beliefs: that Jesus was resurrectedthrough cloning and humans need to perfect human cloning to achieve immortality. That would lead to a claim made in 2002 by a scientific company created by Raëlians that the first human clone had been born.

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85:53

The Messenger

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/01/17

Today's True Weird Stuff - The MessengerThis is the story of a man who created a religion around UFO's.Claude Vorilhon was a journalist who claimed he was abductedby aliens in 1973. He said they told him humans were created by extraterrestrial species using advanced technology, and then they renamed himRaël and sent him back to Earth to serve as ambassador to their faith. And thus, Raëlism was born.

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